Employment & Labor

By By Jennifer G. Betts on July 19, 2019

After a lengthy journey through the Pennsylvania legal system, the City of Pittsburgh’s Paid Sick Days Act is now on course to go into effect. The Act was signed by the Pittsburgh mayor in 2015, but its implementation was delayed due to legal challenges. On July 17, 2019, after lower courts had previously found the law invalid, the highest court in Pennsylvania concluded that the City was within its authority in enacting the ordinance. As…

San Antonio Employment Law Blog

Pres. Trump Used Discriminatory Phrase

By Thomas J. Crane on July 19, 2019

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has the mission of investigating employment discrimination. They also educate employers and others about the nation’s discrimination laws. They issue guidance to employers (and employees) on what discrimination looks like. The EEOC actually issues some very good, well-supported legal guidance. See this site for excellent articles on every aspect of discrimination. Those articles are for lawyers. For the layperson, see this site for general guidance. Regarding discrimination toward immigrants, there…

Global Workplace Insider

Home Office update to guidance for companies with sponsor licences.

By Aida Geragusian on July 19, 2019

The Home Office has published an unexpected update in relation to the Tier 2 and 5 Guidance for Sponsors. Where an employee wishes to enter the UK as a skilled worker (Tier 2) or temporary worker or under the youth mobility scheme (Tier 5), they will need to be “sponsored” before they can apply to enter or remain in the UK. Employers therefore need to obtain a sponsor licence which requires them to provide information…

Affirmative Action & OFCCP Law Advisor

Updated Proposed Focused Review Scheduling Letters: OFCCP Still Seeks Substantive Revisions

By Laura A. Mitchell, Christopher T. Patrick, Suzanne Donnelly Corwin & Lisa B. Marsh on July 19, 2019

This is the third of our series of blog posts on the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) July 1 request for comments on OFCCP’s updated proposed scheduling letters. For background, OFCCP first proposed changes to its existing compliance check, establishment review, and focused review scheduling letters in April, and received comments from the contractor community. These newly proposed July scheduling letters each include changed requirements that, if approved, would impact what contractors must…

Ohio Employer Law Blog

WIRTW #560 (the “more kindness” edition) #IChooseKindness

By Jon Hyman on July 19, 2019

Yesterday, I asked you all to join me in choosing kindness, and talked about Richard Cook’s Don’t Hurt Anyone Project. Over on LinkedIn, Richard took the time to share his thoughts on my post, which I’m sharing with y’all here. Hi Jon, I am all in for #IChooseKindness Go! It is wonderful to see so many supportive comments. As you mentioned, I started the #donthurtanyoneproject There are a confluence of factors…

FMLA Insights

Employees Busted Taking FMLA Leave for a Caribbean “Booze” Cruise, Yet Another Reminder Leave Abuse is Alive and Well

By Jeff Nowak on July 19, 2019

It’s a Friday in the middle of summer. So, approximately half of your workforce called off today due to an FMLA-related absence. [Well, not really, but I’m not that far off, amirite?] Take heart. At least you’re not the City of Chicago. As reported this week by the City’s Inspector General, three employees in the City’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications all took FMLA leave at the same time for various so-called ailments.…

Global Workplace Insider

Why sacking senior executives is a risky business

By Samantha Maddern on July 18, 2019

Since the enactment of the ‘adverse action’ provisions under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act) some 10 years ago, it is far more difficult for an employer to lawfully dismiss an executive or senior manager. Why? Because adverse action claims: are relatively easy to bring; can include compensation for hurt, distress and humiliation (and damages are uncapped); can be difficult to successfully defend (due largely to a reverse onus of proof); and expose…

California Employment Law Report

Uniforms, Terminations, Gig Economy, Class Actions and Minimum Wage

By Anthony Zaller on July 18, 2019

There are a lot of California employment law developments at the mid-point of 2019. Below are five recent videos from our YouTube Channel discussing these new developments. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to keep current. Also, if you are not already subscribed to my Firm’s newsletter, click here to subscribe to receive updates and invitations for special events we host. 1. Uniforms in the Workplace – New Case Law: Townley v. BJ’s Restaurants…

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Blog

Digging into the New HRA Regulations, Part 3 – Premium Tax Credit and Employer Mandate Impact on Individual Coverage HRAs

By Damian A. Myers, Kaitlin Hulbert & Malerie Bulot on July 18, 2019

As part of our ongoing series on the final regulations expanding the availability of health reimbursement accounts (“HRAs”), we discussed the newly-created Individual Coverage HRAs, which generally allow for employers to reimburse employees’ premiums for health coverage purchased on the individual market. As noted in the final regulations, the new Individual Coverage HRA is a group health plan subject to ERISA and the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). Therefore, Individual Coverage HRAs can impact employees’…

Take Stock: Federal Policy Watch

Congress: Week in Review | July 18, 2019

By Michael Drobac, Amanda Armistead, Greg Walden, Casey Stokes & Lauren Stroupe on July 18, 2019

Debt Ceiling The House and Senate are both in session this week as the August recess approaches and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin continue to negotiate a path towards raising the debt ceiling, which Mnuchin is urging Congress to do before leaving Washington for the summer. Mnuchin said this morning that they have reached an agreement on a two-year deal to increase budget caps and to raise the debt limit and…